Bio: Doty, William (1881)
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---Source: 1881 History of Northern Wisconsin,, pg. 208.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF WILLIAM DOTY.

WILLIAM DOTY, scaler, Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company, Chippewa Falls, came to Wisconsin in 1858 and located at this place. Farmed for two years and has been engaged scaling lumber and logs in the boom and in the mill for twenty-one years. Was a Supervisor in the Chippewa County Board for three years, and Deputy Inspector of Lumber from 1865 to 1872. Was born in Canada in 1829, and was in lumbering business on his own account there for ten years, and was married there in, 1855 to Frances Beverly, born in Canada. Came to United States in 1858. They have five children— Edward, William, Cordelia, Lottie and Homer.